Mikrolivado Explained

Mikrolivado (el|Μικρολίβαδο, before 1927: Λαβάνιτσα – Lavanitsa;^[1] rup|Labanitsã) is a village and a community of the Grevena municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was a part of the municipality of Gorgiani, of which it was a municipal district.^[2] The 2021 census recorded 26 residents in the village. The community of Mikrolivado covers an area of 13.851 km².^[3]

Aromanians (Vlachs) and Greeks populated Mikrolivado.^{[4] [5]} Population statistics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries listed Mikrolivado as a Vlach village. In 1904, it was described as Vlach with 15 families by the Orthodox Grevena diocese. Scholars Alan Wace and Maurice Thompson in 1911 visited the region and stated elderly inhabitants of Mikrolivado spoke Aromanian, while the youth were Greek speakers due to assimilation and mixed marriages.^[6] Over time the Aromanian population in Mikrolivado was assimilated.^[6]

See also

• List of settlements in the Grevena regional unit

References

1. Web site: Institute for Neohellenic Research. Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Lavanitsa – Mikrolivadon. Pandektis. 23 August 2024.
2. Web site: ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities. el. Government Gazette.
3. Web site: Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation) . National Statistical Service of Greece . el . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf . 2015-09-21 .
4. Book: Exarchos. Giorgis. Lazarou. Achilleus G.. Οι Ελληνοβλάχοι (Αρμανοί). The Greek Vlachs (Aromanians). 2001. Ekdoseis Kastaniote. 9789600327847. 207.
5. Minov. Nikola. The War of Numbers and its First Victim: The Aromanians in Macedonia (End of 19th – Beginning of 20th century). Macedonian Historical Review. 3. 2012. 162.
6. Book: Koukoudis, Asterios. The Vlachs: Metropolis and Diaspora. 2003. Zitros Publications. 9789607760869. 196. "One possible exception is Mikrolivado (Labanítsă), where there is stronger evidence that Vlachs and Greki lived together and the Vlachs were gradually assimilated. In fact, in a report issued by the Diocese of Grevena in 1904, Mikrolivado is specifically included among the Vlach villages, with fifteen Vlach families. When Wace and Thompson passed through the area in 1911, they found that the elderly residents of Mikrolivado were still speaking Vlach, while the children owing to intermarriage and natural assimilation, now spoke only Greek. In fact, Mikrolivado is recorded as a Vlach village in several records of population statistics compiled in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century."